I am thankful to Health Canada for providing the handbook Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living for Older Adult; NIH (National Institute on Aging, U.S.A.) Senior Health for its online series of exercise stories by seniors; Canadian Diabetes Association/Dietitians of Canada for their online activity sheets on healthy eating; Minnesota Department of Education for its online activity sheets on understanding medication labels by Charles Larue, known as “The Larue Medical Literacy Exercises”; Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies for their booklet Knowledge is the Best Medicine. The health literacy lesson plans would not be complete without these additional learning resources.

Most importantly, this health literacy manual could not have come together without the aid of the literacy tutor training manual of the Nova Scotia Tutor & Instructor Training and Certification Program. It served as an invaluable source of literacy learning activities.

I am grateful to Jeannine Jessome, policy research analyst with the Nova Scotia Seniors’Secretariat who served as project administrator and Martha Shinyei, Adult Education Coordinator with the Nova Scotia Department of Education, Skills and Learning Branch who encouraged me throughout this project.

I would also like to thank Valerie White, Heather Praught and Jane Mayer of the Seniors’ Secretariat for their help and support, and librarian Jane Phillips for her edits and suggestions.

Marguerite McMillan
Seniors’ Literacy Project Coordinator
Nova Scotia Seniors’ Secretariat
December, 2006